Year: 2012
- Africa
The troubling states in Africa
Amidst talks of a rising Africa, peace and security issues remain critical in parts of the continent Selahadin Eshetu Of the several agendas that crowded the 19th Ordinary Session of African head of states and governments, held in July in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the issue of continental peace and security stood high, next, of course, that of…
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Seen here second from left, Hailemariam Desalegn, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs assured the gathering by pledging the government will be back to business “as of tomorrow.” “I would reassure you that the [ruling] EPRDF and our developmental and democratic state will immediately act to implement all the policies and strategies, including…
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The late primer’s body was laid in a special tribune during the first ever state funeral ceremony in contemporary Ethiopia held at the Meskel Square today. The body was carried by a horse carriage dressed in black. It was then laid into the special tribune carried by a dozen senior army generals including military Chief…
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Nation bids farewell to the late Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister Hailemariam pledges state will be back to work ‘as of tomorrow” Tsedale Lemma As a lengthy national mourning period came to an end today thousands of Ethiopians, more than a dozen African serving and former heads of state, U.S and EU diplomats and leading business people including Bill Gates and Nigeria’s self-made billionaire Aliko Dangote,…
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The Royal Opera House of London celebrates Africa
London’s prestigious Opera House to feature African contemporary art festival Zela Gayle The Royal Opera House of London under its director Antonio Pappano is one of the world’s leading Opera Houses. But for all its prestigious past, it was unusual for the Royal Opera House to host a contemporary arts festival which brings Africa to the focus…
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Ethiopia After Meles Crisis Group Africa briefing No. 89. 22, August 2012
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Prime Minister Meles Zenawi dies
State TV says he died at 11:40 last night Two months after he was admitted to an undisclosed hospital abroad for a yet undisclosed ailment, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, 57, has passed away on August 20, the council of ministers announced. State TV broke the news to the public early this morning and said PM Meles…
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African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Crippled by lack of jurisdiction and of cash The court has ambitions like no other courts in the world but it needs the will of African policy organs and a good luck Kiya Tsegaye 25th of January 2004 was not any given day for Africa; it marked the entry into force of a significant protocol adopted by the then…
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Who is who
Ashenafi Zedebub What do writers look like? In a reply to this question Elfriede Czunda, an authoress herself, said “they are more or less prototype of employees.” Her portrait in a pictorial volume once published with the title “Fototermin” has preserved the said authoress and other writers from being forgotten. The German photographer Isolde Ohlbaum in Munich, referring to the…
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